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The change also ensured the quarter dollar (which is valued 2.5 times the dime) weighed 2.5 times the dime (6.25g), and the half dollar (twice the value of the quarter dollar) weighed twice what the quarter dollar weighed (12.5g). In this way, a specific weight of these coins, no matter the mixture of denominations, would always be worth the same.
The half-dollar continued to be minted in a 40% silver-clad composition between 1965 and 1970. Dimes and quarters from before 1965 and half-dollars from before 1971 are generally not in circulation due to being removed for their silver content. Some modern commemorative coins have been minted in the silver dollar denominations.
Dimes, quarters and half dollars are also struck in 90% silver for special annual collector's sets. The silver-colored Susan B. Anthony dollar was replaced with gold-colored Sacagawea dollar in 2000 and Presidential Dollars 2007-2016; though the composition changed, the coin's size and weight remain the same.
Dimes make dollars, they say -- but some dimes are worth more than a few dollars. ... Some 1965 Roosevelt Dimes, in excellent condition, can go for over $1,000, but most are worth 20 cents to $2. ...
In the United States, this is taken to mean pre-1964 90% silver 10-cent ('dimes'), quarters and half-dollars; $1 face value of those circulated coins contains 0.715 troy ounce (22.2 grams) of fine silver. [26] All 1965-1970 and some 1976 Kennedy half dollars are minted with a 40% silver composition.
Here’s a look at seven other bicentennial quarters that have sold for more than $1,000, according to the CoinValueChecker website: 1976-S Silver Proof Bicentennial Quarter: sold for $13,500 in 2019.
The Susan B. Anthony dollar was minted from 1979 to 1981, and then again in 1999. The Dolley Madison silver dollar was available to buy in 1999, made to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Dolley Madison’s death. [18] The Presidential dollar coins, the first of which was released in 2007, commemorate deceased presidents of the United States.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, after leading the United States through much of the Great Depression and World War II.Roosevelt had suffered from polio since 1921 and had helped found and strongly supported the March of Dimes to fight that crippling disease, so the ten-cent piece was an obvious way of honoring a president popular for his war leadership.